Re-engineering environmental data collection in cities

Abstract

The work provides an information framework to support the monitoring of the state of the urban environment and the activities carried out by administrations of provincial capitals to improve quality of the environment in cities. In particular, the "Survey on urban environmental data" is carried out annually by Istat, is included in the National Statistical Program in force and collects environmental information about all Italian capital municipalities. The work describes the study and design of a new validation process, according to a generalized perspective, which includes automatic procedures for checking the consistency of the data collected, monitoring the processing and interaction with the Municipal Statistics Offices. A representation of the rules in formal logic will be adopted, through a metalanguage in order to support an automatic approach. The result is an integrated system of generalized services that works formally and therefore can be used in different contexts. In order to maintain the quality standards of the data disseminated by the survey, a study on the administration of questionnaires on different editions of the survey was designed.